To Live Another Day, 2026

About Sabahat Nisar

Sabahat Nisar is a Lahore-based Pakistani artist. She received her BFA in Visual Arts from the Government Postgraduate College for Women, Gulberg (affiliated with Lahore College for Women University) in 2019, graduating with a silver medal for academic excellence, and later completed her MFA in Fine Arts at the College of Art & Design, University of the Punjab, in 2024. Her practice is rooted in slow, observational figurative painting. Working in oil on canvas over months of hand-built layers, she captures the choreography of ordinary life in Lahore —traffic, tea houses, bazaars, and crowds—alongside the interior lives people carry through them. Alongside her painting, her sculptural installation work examines gender and the politics of looking. Sabahat has exhibited at notable Pakistani art spaces, including Gallery 6, O Art Space, Numaish Gah, Studio 46, Tagheer Creative Space, Alhamra Art Gallery, and Anna Molka Gallery. In 2025, her work was selected for the NCA Triennale, the major curated survey of contemporary art organized by the National College of Arts, Lahore.